Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-03-10
DAKOTA ITEMS.

DAKOTA ITEMS.
Claremont Is in need of a physician.
The churches of Montrose are with
out bells.
A temperance revival is~fn progress
in Bismarck.
The young men of Yankton have
fully organized q Y. NJ. c. A.
Aurora has shirt factory that keeps
twelve machines on the hum.
Kilnball has voted 5000 in bonds for
the erection of new school house.
The freezing of the town pumps at
Pierre has doubled the price of beer.
A postofiicc has been established at
Tripp with A. J. Williams as postmas-
ter.
The building outlook at Scotland is
more promising than at any season in
its history.
Citizens of Dell Rapids are meeting
and consulting in the interest of more
railroads.
Great privation is reported west of
Aberdeen because of the lack of fuel
and provisions.
A number OF Pierre people are re-
| ported to be packing up preparatory to
moving east.
Solid farmers about Ashton have
| pooled on a $1,000 stock horse for the
use of the members.
jamestown young men have been
putting in profitable winter trapping
foxes at 81 to 1,25 u hide.
st. Lawrence has been without hard
coal several weeks and last week the
supply of soft coal was exhausted.
Cheese factory boomers at Montrose
held a mass meeting the other evening
and resolved to push the enterprise.
A trunk full of loud clothes from an
lll-shaped house at Rapid City has oc-
cupied the time of the court for four
days.
Mining matters in Pennington coun-
tY are beginning to pick up, and the
chances for busy season are now
most excellent.
Judge w. w. Brookings, of Sioux
Falls, made the first presumption filing
and received the first patent ever given
a settler in Dakota.
There is good prospect for fifty
barrel roller mill being erected at Eden
this summer, although the parties have
not yet decided to build.
| II. S. Harcott, OF Lisbon, a veteran
editor OF north Dakota, has accepted a
position on the Daily Ledger at Taco
ma, Washington territory.
| The Fargo Argus and the James
town Alert have joined hands in roast
ing" the Pullman Palace Car company
for alleged exorbitant charges.
Mrs. Lizzie z. Prcton, wife of j. Wal
ter Preton, of the train dispatcher's
Office of the Chicago and Northwestern
railway, died in Huron Wednesday.
According to the local record the
thermometer in Towner county got
above zero but four days in February.
The lowest was AZ degrees below zero.
Treasurer Raymond's term of ap-
pointment expires March Is and Audi
tor Caldwell's term expires April l, at
which date Mr.. Ward will take the
office.
The Bangor Rustler says that mail
contractor in that region has pair OF
jack rabbits that serve him as steeds
, to expedite the fultillment Of his con
tract.
The Salvation army tenters at Plank.
inton bombarded the earth in that dl
rection the ether night with melodious
and screeching cadences, warbled from
u pair of bobs.
Graves, the negro shot in the leg al
Rapid City Il few weeks ago, and whom
the doctors said could not live because
he refused to have hia leg sawed off, il
about able to be around again.
The claims under which the factory o
o. w. Buck Il Co.. of Sioux Falls. were
closed Tuesday were not attachments
but were chattel mortgages aggregat
ing nearly $4,000.
On Saturday transportation com
pany delivered freight to Deadwoo,
dealers only eight days out from Chi
cago. said to be the most expedition
e delivery ever experienced in that city
: The Marshall county sufferers ar
still destitute, subsisting on rabbit
and potatoes alone. They have ap
pealed to helegislature for aid. Their
. are 265 families-about 400 souls
! They lost all by the hail.
: A citizen of Lennox did not enter tn
!, church last Sunday evening because n
: one answered his knock ut the dool
= In his estimation the people of tina
church are the most discourteous set q
heathens ever heard of.
d A party of Russians caught in biz
# zard IN one of the new counties on tn
q Missouri river, used their sleds for tire
.r and for three days feasted on mul
i meat, their only provision. AS til
!. mule cost them S75 they Ii ed high.
The Kimball Graphic complains {
the appearance of the principal bus
ness street of Brule county's balnt
Y town. 1t is illustrated us Il receptac
d for decayed vegetables, ashes, tin can
cast off bustles, hoop-skirts and stol
and Office sweepings.
Ont of a herd of lT5 cattle which M